Rabbit City & Edge Records Profile/Interview

Rabbit City and Edge records was owned by Gordon Mattewman.

What were you doing before you started Rabbit City Records?
My first job was playing the trumpet on a ship

Your obviously musically minded, what do you think of DJ's with no technical music ability making records?
I think that's perfectly legitimate. Its like if you put a producer with a group of musicians you can sometimes get a better sound than if the musicians were left to themselves.

Your first release on Rabbit Ciy, "Cutter Mix" was an instant hit, how did that come about?
Well basically it was a mix using various samples. I got an acetate of it cut and gave it to Colin Faver, he played it for the first time at Rage and there was immediate reaction from a distributor who was interested in it.

Does Colin Faver play a big part in RC?
Colin has been a friend of mine for years and its through him, and his show that I meet new acts for my label eg The Aphex Twin and Force Mass Motion.

Moving on, your biggest hit to date has to be "Compounded", the first release on Edge records borrowing a line from an old Garage track, was that intentional?
No, it was only two weeks after it was released that someone pointed the similarity out. I went back through my collection and found that I actually had the record in question. The strange thing was that they were both in the same key.

The B-side to that record is full of different styles, Deep House, Techno and Garage was that intentional?
Yes I set up Edge record to concentrate on my own work, with RC doing other peopls. I would advicse people to do one all out club track and three experimental tracks per EP.

What do you think of the Hardcore scene at the moment?
I don't know, I don't go to Hardcore raves. Before I last went to Germany Some DJ's asked me to bring some breakbeat tunes. I listen to about twenty but only like four or five.

So can you relate more easily to the TechnoAcid German sound?
Yes, and it has resulted in me licensing two EPs from Structure and the setting up of Force Inc UK.

What are you doing in the immediate future?
I'm going to NEw York and Germany, and Rabbit City 2 was well as Force Inc 3, featuring brand new Thomas Heckman tracks, are soon to be released.

And Long term?
I'd like to work with percussion sounds.